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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Missing features in Ada.Containers
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:07:34 +0100
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Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> Of the top of my head I find notable the absence of the "hashed
> strings" container. Now it seems you're alone with a "hashed map"
> whose keys are generic of constrained nature. Thus you must make some
> leaps to have the old (and in my case, most used) hashed string
> container. Indeed it requires ugly conversions between the key type,
> String, defining the hashing function simply to reuse the
> Ada.Hash_String, etc. It smells so wrong to me that I'm almost sure
> I'm missing something obvious here.

Can't you use "Ada.Containers.Indefinite_Hashed_Maps"?